Overview
- Los Angeles clinched a 5-4 thriller as Miguel Rojas tied it in the ninth and Will Smith homered in the 11th, with Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto recording the final 2 2/3 scoreless innings.
- A Monday celebration is set with an 11 a.m. downtown Los Angeles parade followed by a ticketed Dodger Stadium rally, with street closures and several DTLA courthouses closed for the event.
- FOX Sports reported 25.984 million viewers for Game 7, peaking at 31.543 million, the most-watched World Series game since 2017, with final ratings due Tuesday.
- The Dodgers’ 2025 spending reached about $509.5 million in payroll and projected luxury tax, part of roughly $890 million across two title seasons, intensifying owner talk of a salary-cap push that the MLBPA is preparing to resist before the CBA expires on Dec. 2, 2026.
- MLB’s last fully human-called balls and strikes are in the books, with the Automated Ball/Strike System set for all parks next season and two challenges per team, plus an extra challenge in each extra inning after challenges are exhausted.